TheatreGB @theatregb.com · Feb 14

Bartlett is a master at taking ideas that could be played for easy laughs and twisting them into something weightier. Here, the British sex comedy is the Trojan horse; inside is a play about identity and repression. This isn’t just a play about sex. It’s a play about what we use sex to cover up.

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TheatreGB · Feb 14

The fact that Unicorn is explicitly set in 2025 is no accident. Bartlett presents polyamory as the next great social revolution. A response to monogamy’s failures. A blueprint for love & survival. But does Unicorn interrogate this enough?